Janek Simon <br> SIXTEENTH WORLD

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2023

Janek Simon
SIXTEENTH WORLD

The work of Janek Simon grows out of experien­ces of travel between diverse cul­tures, economies and visions of the future, which the artist com­bines using innovative digital tools and DIY practice. The sculp­ture series “Meta Folklore”, executed over the past two years, is an artistic, tech­nological and political fantasy—a vision of a new, univer­sal art created using artificial intel­ligence fed by a database of thousands of non-​academic sculp­tures from all over the world.

Oskar Zięta <br> COURTYARD SCULPTURES

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2023

Oskar Zięta
COURTYARD SCULPTURES

Oskar Zięta’s design prac­tice derives from a moder­nistic ethos of innovation and tech­nology which drives aesthetics. The point of depar­ture for the project prepared especially for the Raster Sculp­ture Garden is the figure of the rug-​beating frame typically found in the cour­tyard of a housing com­plex, from which the artist explores a sur­prising space between func­tional garden fur­niture and an abs­tract, futuristic spatial forms.

Alicja Pakosz <br> VORTICES

EXHIBITIONS 2023

Alicja Pakosz
VORTICES

The first individual show at Raster by Alicja Pakosz (born 1996) is a nar­rative woven around the figure of a toxic landscape—obsessively retur­ning as a clas­sic motif from the history of pain­ting and also a vision evoking fear, an under­lying anxiety. An image appearing in the least expec­ted moment like hal­lucinations pres­sing under the eyelids. Something morbid and not entirely benign. The artist plays out this story like film frames in a series of pain­tings in two dif­ferent scales and a fully-​formed diorama.

Zofia Rydet <br> ENDLESSLY DISTANT ROADS

EXHIBITIONS 2023

Zofia Rydet
ENDLESSLY DISTANT ROADS

Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), creator of the iconic Sociological Record and the fan­tastic World of Feelings and Imagination, was an artist gifted with a sense for observing the entropy of the world around her. This excep­tional photographic per­spec­tive is revealed in all its power in the series Endles­sly Distant Roads, executed in 1980. In the exhibition at Raster, we present a selec­tion of 40 photographs from this unusual and rarely shown collection.

Krzysztof Zieliński <br>HOMETOWN

EXHIBITIONS 2020

Krzysztof Zieliński
HOMETOWN

Wąbrzeźno, an ordinary little town star­ting with W, down near the end of the alphabet, in a lan­guage where “w” could stand for wszędzie—anywhere, por­trayed by the photographer after a decade of sys­temic chan­ges up to the eve of Poland’s joining the European Union, became a visual synonym for the creeping trans­for­mation. Wor­king on colour negatives and alluding to the minimalist poetics of topographic photography, Zieliński created an image of the post-​socialist coun­tryside that is the first of its kind, moving and empathetic, con­struc­ted from mist and a thousand and one shades of grey.

Michał Budny, Kajetan Sosnowski <br>EQUIVALENT ARRANGEMENT

EXHIBITIONS 2020

Michał Budny, Kajetan Sosnowski
EQUIVALENT ARRANGEMENT

At the joint exhibition Equivalent Arran­gement Michał Budny and Kajetan Sosnow­ski meet for the first time. The works of both artists, seemin­gly abs­tract, in various ways defy easy clas­sifications of genre. They operate through images and masses but use little pain­ting or sculp­ting. Their com­positions generally finds its origins in an abs­tract drawing—noted on paper or only conceptualized—as a type of minimalist score, the sim­plest recor­ding of an idea.

“Vodka and Death” and “Only Vodka”


“Vodka and Death” and “Only Vodka”

Album Wor­kers, published by the Edward Dwur­nik Foun­dation, in a special collector’s edition with an original print signed and stam­ped by the artist. There is a choice of two works—Vodka and Death or Only Vodka—from the Wor­kers series.

I Have Yet to See


I Have Yet to See

Signed print by Maciejow­ski in a limited edition of 25, based on his 2022 drawing I Have Yet to See, in a format of 100 × 70 cm, priced at PLN 3,200 is available at Raster.

“Simurgh Self-Help” Merch Drop


“Simurgh Self-Help” Merch Drop

Part of the show Simurgh Self-​Help is the new merch drop py Slavs and Tatars, inc­luding caps, T-shirts and leg­gings in various colour­ways, featuring themes and slogans from the show: Simurgh—See More. Merch is available exc­lusively at Raster during the exhibition, until July 6, 2024.

Poster “Raphael by Maciejowski (The Impression of Possession)”


Poster “Raphael by Maciejowski (The Impression of Possession)”

At the Raster book­store we recom­mend a new item: a poster by Marcin Maciejow­ski based on his own pain­ting Raphael by Maciejow­ski (The Impres­sion of Possession).

Mouth to Mouth

RASTER EDITIONS


Mouth to Mouth

The collective’s monograph inc­ludes all major art works, publications and lecture–performances from the past ten years, with a special screen­print by Slavs and Tatars in limited edition of 100 copies.

Terror

RASTER EDITIONS


Terror

The latest, typo-photo-graphic per­for­mance by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska is an up-to-date political choreography. Using excerpts from her film works, the artist prepared an effec­tive screenprint.

Untitled


Untitled

Karolina has prepared a special limited series of 30 unique works on paper, which are offered for sale along with the book “Made-Up Story”.

Karolina Jabłońska in Sopot

EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND

Karolina Jabłońska in Sopot

The exhibition ‘Preserves. Works from 2023–24’ is a testament to and documen­tation of the develop­ment of Jabłońska’s autotheoretical and autofic­tional prac­tices in pain­ting over recent years. The protagonist of Karolina Jabłońska’s latest pain­tings faces social, political, and aesthetic chan­ges that have occur­red in Poland – a coun­try whose politics in recent years have become known for an anti-​feminist agenda and various forms of exclusion.